Adelaide of Italy
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Adelaide of Italy, also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was Holy Roman Empress by marriage to Emperor Otto the Great. She was crowned with him by Pope John XII in Rome on 2 February 962. She was the firs
Sainte Adélaïde Église de Toury, vitraux par Lorin
Statues of Adelaide and her second spouse Otto I, the donors of Meissen Cathedral
Chapel of St. Adelaide, Église Saint-Étienne de Seltz
Relic attributed to St. Adelaide
Bertha of Swabia
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Bertha of Swabia, a member of the Alemannic Hunfriding dynasty, was queen of Burgundy from 922 until 937 and queen of Italy from 922 until 926, by her marriage with King Rudolph II. She was again quee
Adelaide of Italy
…in Orbe Castle, Orbe, Kingdom of Upper Burgundy (now in modern-day Switzerland), to Rudolf II of Burgundy, a member of the Elder House of Welf, and Bertha of Swabia. Adelaide was involved from the outset in the complicated fight to control not only Burgundy but also Lombardy. The battle between her father Rudolf…
Queen Bertha and the spinners. Painting of 1888.